In Nepal, ten Indians were among those the nineteen killed in an crash in a hill south- of Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International airport this morning. While eighteen were killed on the spot, one succumbed to injury in hospital . The flight was carrying sixteen passengers and three crew. The crash took place at Kotdanda in Lalitpur district while approaching the airport in cloudy weather after a mountain flight. The flight took off at 6.40 am local time and lost contact with the Control tower at around 7.30 am local time. The bodies have been recovered and brought to a Kathmandu hospital. A Three member inquiry Committee has been set headed by Former Director- general of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, Rajeshraj Dali to investigate the crash. According to the Indian Embassy, the Indians who were aboard the ill-fated flight were M. Maruthachalam, A.K Krisunan, V.M Kankasabesan, T Dhansekaran, Kattor Mahalingam, Meenakshi Sundaram, K Thyagarajan, Pankaj Mehta, Chaya Mehta. Expressing grief the Indian Embassy at Kathmandu has said has provided help lines and is providing all the necessary help.AIR correspondent reports, the crash took place at Kotdanda in Lalitipur, while the mountain flight of Buddha air was approaching to land at the Kathmandu Tribhuvan airport valley when it lost contact at 7.31 am local time . Initially due to bad weather Nepal army helicopter could not land but however as the weather cleared the helicopter landed and brought the bodies to Kathmandu .Among the ten dead Indians , two were a couple one, working one with UNICEF -Nepal, while the other eight from Tamil Nadu had arrived in Kathmandu only on Saturday. They belonged to Thiirupchupalli Centre for Buildings Association and had a three day booking in the hotel. It was a flight to see the Majestic Himalayas but turned into tragedy.